Thursday, October 25, 2012

Google Shifts Pitch for Its New Chromebooks - NYTimes.com

It'll be interesting to see the relative sales levels for Chromebooks and Surface devices, over the next several months

"To start people off, Google is offering new Chromebook owners 100 gigabytes of free file storage on Google Drive for two years. That amount of space typically costs $5 a month. (So the $250 Chromebook feels like it is really only $130.) Google also links a user’s activity on a Chromebook with the same person’s Android phone, for instance, so if you search for a pizza place on the laptop Google will automatically show you directions on your phone.
“Above all, it brings all of Google services, built straight into the device,” Mr. Pichai said."